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past 2004-2005 NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS from Alan Canfora:
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October 5, 2005: KSU President Carole Cartwright has announced her plans to retire after 15 years of leadership. She will remain until at least the summer of 2006. Cartwright has clearly been the most sensitive KSU leader since 1970 regarding issues related to the May 4 tragedy. For details online, see: http://www.stateronline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/10/06/4344a91c92cfa?in_archive=1
October 13, 2005: MAJOR 2005 KSU CONTROVERSY? KSU Undergraduate Student Senate (USS) has announced controversial, idiotic plans to attempt to deny guaranteed annual funding to the May 4 Task Force student organiztion. In 2003, undergraduate students at KSU voted in a student referendum vote by approximately 2:1 to provide guaranteed block funding of May 4 Task Force commemoration activities. Since 2003, the M4TF students have been allocated funds without the controversy that loomed throughout 2002 when Republicans in the USS granted onscene speaker fees ($65,000) to ugly old Barbara Bush and ZERO DOLLARS to the M4TF. The 2003 referendum supposedly ended future funding controversies sparked by conservative attempts to silence the M4TF students--until now! Clearly, the USS conservatives in 2005 are dancing to the dumb conservative tune of certain right-wingers inside the KSU Campus Life Office and the KSU administration. MY PREDICTION: President Cartwright will intervene before we are forced to have our top-notch loawyers go to court to defend the 2003 referendum vote and the M4TF students. This is especially ridiculous in 2005 after 30 years of dedication by M4TF students. The M4TF is one of the oldest student groups at KSU and they deserve RESPECT instead of stupid insults. IF we must, we will join our 1970 families of May 4 victims and join the M4TF students in a controversy of national impact. Certainly, KSU would be verrry dumb to pick such a losing battle. WE WILL WIN in 2005 just as we won in 2003. Stay tuned... Here's the DAILY KENT STATER student newspaper article after the 2003 student-vote referendum: 3/13/03 (*excerpts) ALL REFERENDA PASS, SENATE IS ELECTED by Leana Donofrio DAILY KENT STATER student newspaper The May 4 referendum, which would permanently allocate 1.75 percent of USS funds to the May 4 Task Force for yearly commemorations, also passed with 1,103 out of 1,752 students voting to approve it. The university administration has said they will not acknowledge the vote because they believe it is unconstitutional. Current Senator Seth Kujat, who proposed the referendum, said he will continue to work with the administration on the issue. He said Senate supports the Task Force getting the funds. "This vote allows Senate to keep going and represent student opinion," he said. "We can now say if you go against this, you go against what students want." 2,736 students voted in the election, representing 14.5 percent of the student body. NOTE: for more 2003 STATER news coverage of this issue, see my 2003 NEWS section here at http://www.alancanfora.com/19.html
NOTE: for more details about the recent 2005-2006 KSU conservative/Republican attempt to subvert the May 4 Task Force -- and the attempted take-over of May 4, 2006, as a pro-war celebration, see: "M4TF 2005-2006" here at alancanfora.com/
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May 31, 2005: C-SPAN TV offered the May 3, 2005, educational forum at KSU sponsored by the May 4 Task Force students. Featuring 3 wounded at Kent in 1970: Dean Kahler, Joe Lewis and Jim Russell as well as 1970 student Rita Rubin-Long and two current KSU student activists: Erin Root and Greg Schwartz. This great forum may be available again in the future. For updated C-SPAN SCHEDULES, see: http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/schedule.csp
Nice job once again this year, as usual, by the fine May 4 Task Force students. See their web site: http://dept.kent.edu/may4/ ~ ~ ~ ~
May 4, 2005 -- 35th annual May 4 Commemoration at KSU was a fanatastic success. Well over 1,000 people joined us for May 1-4 events sponsored by the fine young students of the May Task Force student organization: http://dept.kent.edu/may4/ Here's an example of national US news coverage: http://www.kansascity.com/mld Kent State remembers students killed protesting Vietnam WarKnight Ridder Newspapers
KENT, Ohio - (KRT) - Most Americans old enough to remember President John F. Kennedy's assassination can recall what they were doing or where they were when it happened. But the sister of one of the four students slain at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, told about 500 onlookers Wednesday that probably only a handful of people remember what they were doing when those shootings occurred during a Vietnam War protest. Nancy Tuttle remembers. She was in Lawrence, Kan., with a month-old boy. Her brother, William Schroeder, was one of the four killed. Barry Levine, who was the boyfriend of Allison Krause, also remembers. She died in his arms after being shot while running through a campus parking lot. The Victory Bell at the Commons at Kent State University rang 15 times at 12:24 p.m. Wednesday in honor of the students killed and wounded at Kent State and 10 days later at Jackson State University in Mississippi. Killed at Kent State were Schroeder, Krause, Jeffrey Miller and Sandra Scheuer. Nine others were wounded. At Jackson State, two students were killed: James Earl Green and Phillip Gibbs. Turnout Wednesday for the 35th anniversary of the Kent State shooting was relatively light. People drifted into and out of the audience that listened to speeches delivered over three hours. Banners were displayed on the side of a fenced-in area that blocked off a construction area. The signs included: "Carry On the Struggle, March On" and "Casualties of War; The Cost of Freedom" and "Kent State, unnecessary, unwarranted, inexcusable and unforgettable." The theme of this year's commemoration was "Tell Me Father, Did They Aim?" - a quote from a telegram sent by Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary to then-FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover the day after the shootings. An anonymous poem, Who killed Allison and Why?, was read aloud. It laid out the positions of townspeople, teachers, the mayor, guardsmen, Gov. James Rhodes and President Richard Nixon on the shooting. In the poem, no one took the blame: The townspeople felt the protesters were bums and needed to be taught a lesson, the teachers thought the students' opinions should be written and not heard, the governor said "not on my watch," and the guardsmen said they were "just doing what they were told." Family members and friends of the four slain Kent students shared their views. "Stay home, Billy, stay home," Tuttle said she had pleaded in her last conversation with her brother. "He never did listen to me anyway," she said of her 6-foot-2 younger brother. "My brother's life was taken away - all his creativity, ambition and intelligence was lost. I lost him to history, and his history became mine." Russell Miller, Jeffrey's brother, talked about the insight his brother had even at age 16, and he urged today's students to maintain balance in their lives. He described war as senseless and said the May 4 protest contributed to shortening the Vietnam War. Mike Alewitz, Scheuer's friend, said he came not to mourn but to honor his friend. "When we act together, human solidarity can defeat corporate greed," he said. "Don't let them trivialize what we did at Kent State and Jackson State." A former guardsman, Chad Salamon, 25, of Ravenna, Ohio, spoke out against the war in Iraq. He spent six months in Iraq and said he learned firsthand that it is a "pointless conflict. When they approve a policy that replaces debt and destruction, then I will support our leaders." The May 4 Task Force, which organizes the annual commemoration, ended the event with a performance by the Waterband, a local band, singing the May 4 anthem "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. An anti-war protest sponsored by the Portage Community Peace Coalition and the Kent State Anti-War Committee followed the commemoration. About 200 people marched peacefully from the campus site to downtown Kent. - end of article - ~ ~ ~ ~
MAY, 2005, NOTICE: May 4 Commemorative Double-CD MUSIC COMPILATION -- featuring brand new songs by Chryssie Hynde, Joe Walsh, Yoko Ono, The Numbers Band, DINK, Chris Butler, Holly Near and many others! Only $20! Support the May 4 Task Force students at KSU and their annual memorial student activism scholarship fund. All proceeds to scholarship fund. Available at the 2005 May 4 Commemoration at KSU or online. For song/musician details and online purchase: https://commerce.cashnet.com
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May 1-4, 2005 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Kent State University 35th anniversary commemoration
The May 4 Task Force student organization at KSU is sponsoring 35th anniversary commemoration events from May 1 through May 4, 2005. The May 4 commemoration will start at noon on the KSU Commons. For details, see: http://dept.kent.edu/may4/
KENT STATE--35th annual commemoration 2005--SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: * NOTE: all events are free and open to the public *
Sunday, May 1, 2005: (all May 1 events in Kiva auditorium, KSU Student Center) 1pm-3pm: Vietnam veterans' panel discussion featuring Gary Lockwood, Tim Butz, Ken Johnson and others to be announced. 4pm-7pm: Kent Students for a Democratic Society public reunion event featuring premier of a new documentary film by Dr. Daniel Miller of Oregon, "Fire in the Heartland -- A History of Dissent at Kent State University, 1960-1980". An educational panel of Kent SDS speakers will follow. Panelists to be announced. 7:30pm-9:30pm: "I Was There" panel discussion featuring eyewitness participants at KSU in 1969 and 1970. Panelists include: Tim Butz, Vietnam veteran/KSU grad student in 1970; Chuck Ayres, 1970 Daily Kent Stater cartoonist and May 4 photographer/eyewitness; Bob Carpenter, WKNT-Radio broadcaster who taped live KSU protest actions in May of 1970; KSU Prof. Dr. Jerry Lewis, May 4 faculty observer/eyewitness; Candy Knox and Howie Emmer of Kent SDS in 1969. **** Monday-Tuesday, May 2-3, 2005: The Kent State University administration of President Carole Cartwright will sponsor the Sixth Annual Symposium on Democracy, "Democracy and the Arts: Voices and Choices," on the Kent cmpus of Kent State University. For details, see: http://www.kent.edu/History/may4_1970/democracy/Democracy2005/index.cfm **** Tuesday, May 3, 2005: 7pm-9:30pm: "Looking Back, Looking Forward" panel discussion in Kiva auditorium of KSU Student Center. 1970 eyewitnesses will discuss their views of tragic events. Panelists include: Joe Lewis, Jim Russell and Dean Kahler (wounded by gunshots on May 4, 1970), Rita Rubin-Long, 1970 friend of KSU martyrs Allison, Sandy and Jeff; KSU 2005 students Erin Roof and Greg Swartz; and audience participation including families and friends of our four martyrs and various May 4, 1970 eyewitnesses. 11pm: Annual Candlelight March sponsored by May 4 Task Force students at KSU. Gather at Victory Bell on KSU Commons at 10pm. March led by KSU Prof. Dr. Jerry Lewis departs KSU Commons at 11pm. March is followed by all-night candlelight vigil in Prentice Hall parking lot at memorial spaces where our martyrs died in 1970. See M4TF web site for vigil sign-up info and to reserve your 30-minute vigil place between midnight and noon: http://dept.kent.edu/may4/ ****
May 4, 2005: 9:30am-11am: Women's Gathering on 3rd floor of KSU Student Center. Kent SDS women and modern KSU feminists gather to share women's liberation inspiration. Noon-3pm: 35th annual May 4 Commemoration sponsored by the May 4 Task Force students. Speakers include: William Schulz, leader of Amnesty International USA; Gene Young, Jackson State massacre eyewitness 1970; families and friends of our four martyrs, including Russell Miller (Jeff's brother), Nancy Tuttle (Bill's sister), Barry Levine (Allison's mate), Mike Alewitz (Sandy's friend); Ken Hammond and Marc Lencl of Kent SDS; and others to be announced. NOTE: Anti-War MARCH from KSU campus into downtown Kent will follow the commemoration!
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new Kent 1970 book is lame but free attached DVD is excellent!
13 SECONDS book review by Alan Canfora April 22, 2005
NEW Kent State 1970 BOOK:
13 Seconds A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings by Philip Caputo
Alan's book review: Philip Caputo has a mediocre new book, "13 Seconds", but the free DVD is excellent! This weak book without photos is one of the most unhelpful books ever about Kent State 1970. But the DVD alone is worth the $20 cost of the book/DVD package so, I recommend buying this package at your local bookstore or online. Too bad the book is mostly awful. What a shame such a previously great author would botch the task of writing a modern Kent State 1970 book. Fortunately, the excellent documentary film DVD, "Kent State: The Day The War Came Home", is offered attached to the book package. The DVD documentary is the best ever and features 1970 student victims, eyewitnesses, guardsmen, mothers of our martyrs and great 1970 film footage. This fine 50-minute DVD documentary film, originally shown on THE LEARNING CHANNEL in 2000 and on DISCOVERY CHANNEL in recent years, is finally available (cheap) to the public! So, buy the book/DVD package online for under $20, sit back and learn from the fine DVD documentary film and use this lame book as a coaster for your beer or coffee. Or sell the book at Ebay for a few bucks and keep the excellent educational DVD. What a bargain -- for the DVD! This quite disappointing book really is a poor volume of mostly copied/pasted internet info along with recycled info from other people's books about Kent 1970. The thin book I read last night, only 122 pages written by Caputo, mostly regurgitates obtuse opinions of others with no footnotes or index. Nearly 80 pages of very old free-internet 1970 information is added as filler in appendices. The book is promoted online, however, as 207 pages. This 122 page essay by Caputo would be more appropriate as a long magazine article perhaps. Caputo admits he was a young 1970 newspaper reporter sitting on an airplane from Chicago to Cleveland when we were gunned down at Kent State on May 4, 1970. Later in the book, he claims he "was there" at Kent. Several times he admits he simply cannot recall exactly where he was at times during 1970! To my knowledge, Caputo never interviewed me or anybody else from Kent 1970 for this surprising volume of emptiness. Yet Caputo feels free to pronounce his off-the-wall analysis of the intentions and impact of everybody he does not understand. A strange approach, in my opinion. Yo, Phil. If you wanted the real story you should have contacted the real people instead of parroting bad info from questionable second-hand others. Why not follow the lead of the brilliant DVD film-makers who actually interviewed real Kent State eyewitnesses? I wonder: did Caputo even bother to watch the great DVD documentary? He could have learned a thing or two, I'm certain. This book is not a legitimate search for the complicated set of facts, circumstances and developments of May, 1970, at Kent State University. Philip Caputo, probably based upon poor advice, has merely assembled a recycled sham of poorly-selected, previously-published information and misinformation. Caputo's obvious May 4 mentor is a fellow-May 4 charlatan named William A. Gordon -- a notorious California tour-guide author who despises most May 4 activists. It's too bad Caputo praises, mimics and supports Bill Gordon's questionable old distortions throughout this "new" Caputo book. Disregarding the 4 million students who shut down over 800 colleges during the National Student Strike of May, 1970, anti-activists Caputo/Gordon declare the May 4 massacre as America's "most popular murders". Overlooking numerous legitimate historians, Caputo/Gordon also state Kent 1970 had little impact upon US war policies in SE Asia. Caputo/Gordon now exaggerate KSU anti-war student militance in 1970 -- militance similar to hundreds of other campuses without massacres -- and mostly let the Kent State killers off the hook. Like his pal William A. Gordon, Philip Caputo is not a legitimate May 4 "expert", in my opinion. Caputo/Gordon are second-hand information interpreters with questionable biases. Seeking to capitalize upon the 35th anniversary of the 1970 Kent tragedy, this book was clearly rushed to publication. Memo to Phil Caputo: next time you write a quickie-book, get a legitimate fact checker. Kent, Ohio, is located in Portage County, not "Porter County". The Ohio National Guard invaded Kent on May 2, not May 3, 1970. Numerous other errors of fact and opinion are found throughout this hastily-compiled bit of "journalism". Caputo closes his book with a groovy appeal for perpetual pacifism among people everyplace always. How nice. He tips his hat to well-known pacifists and implies the tired old "blame the victim" mentality we've heard so many times before. Such an experienced journalist, a Pulitzer Prize winner when he was younger, could have summarized all available factual information for students and others seeking this valuable historical information. But, no. Caputo has chosen the easy way to publish fast in 2005: copy/paste/regurgitate/distort/sell. This little book is a HUGE disappointment. ****
PRO-WAR VIETNAM VETERAN ARRESTED TWICE FOR DISRUPTION AT KSU IN MAY, 2005: The same angry guy who disrupted the silent KSU candlelight vigil in 1993 has been arrested here at KSU on May 1, 2005, and again on May 3, 2005 -- for similar attempted disruption-by-incessant-lunatic-screaming. Obviously a supporter of "Swiftboat Vets Against Truth", this Vietnam veteran is filled with hatred against the 1970 Kent anti-war protesters who stopped the criminal US war in Vietnam. He disrupted a May 1, 2005 KSU student-sponsored forum of anti-war Vietnam veterans. Again, before the annual candlight vigil May 3, 2005, he was "escorted" to the KSU police station. This poor guy is in need of serious help, shall we say. America is becoming dangerous again. In 1970, anti-war activists were demonized by President Nixon, Vice President Agnew, California Governor Reagan, Ohio Governor Rhodes and others until deadly bloodshed at Kent State and Jackson State in May of 1970. Modern fanatical Republican pro-war supporters of war criminal president GW Bush are again brainwashed into anti-student, anti-activist actions once again at Kent State University in 2005. History repeats at Kent State and all across America these days. It is getting ugly once again. Watch out.
MORE 2005 NEWS FROM KENT:
*** It's my sad duty to report the death of Tony Walsh, longtime supporter of Kent activism. He was a lawyer defending the Kent 25 in 1970 and he assisted the hundreds arrested during the gym protests in 1977. Tony attended most May 4 commemorations. He was a big beautiful guy with a heart of gold. Here is the obituary from the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper:
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*** Bernard Miller, father of 1970 Kent martyr Jeff Miller, has died. He was the last living father of our four martyrs. Jeff's brother Russ (and nephew Jeff Miller) joined us at KSU on May 4, 2005. All of our martyrs' mothers remain alive and well. More news regarding our victims' families here soon...
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2004 KENT NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS:
US Jewish students visit Kent State
Alan Canfora led the tours for students from across America. On May 4, 1970, three of our four martyrs were from Jewish families: Allison Krause, Sandy Scheuer and Jeff Miller. For descriptions and color photos of Alan Canfora leading these tours, see: http://www.etgar.org/journal/archives/000021.html Thanks to Billy Planer of Etgar 36, a fine educational Jewish students' tour organizer, who includes the Kent State tragedy scene on his tour travel itinerary each summer. A student's own web site includes photos from Kent State and other historical/political locations all across America. I'm honored this young student says: "...Alan Canfora was the most captivating speaker from the whole trip!" Thanks, my friend! For details and his photos, see: http://pnavy.com/Moose/albums.php http://pnavy.com/Moose/album08?&page=4
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Carter Dodge, 1977 KSU "activist" dead
~ ~ ~ ~ RIP: John Hartzler, LONG LIVE the KENT CRAZIES "The road of life is dark and steep, sometimes it's like a nightmare creeping..." -- Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1969 Our 1969-1970 group of comrades and friends--the Kent Crazies--has suffered a great loss. On June 20, 2004, our brother John Hartzler departed this earth at a time of his choosing. John, age 55, was plagued by the worsening effects of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for many years and suffered greatly in recent months. His family included his wife Marcella and their daughter, Emily. In 1969-1970, John Hartzler was a respected and beloved friend who lived among us on West Summit Street in Kent. An anti-war KSU student like us all, John strongly opposed the war in Vietnam and the abuse of power by President Richard Nixon and his generals in the Pentagon. A longstanding fan of Bob Dylan and the Beatles, John appreciated our youth culture and he dared to take decisive actions at our side when Nixon invaded Cambodia on April 30, 1970. One of John's room-mates was Tom "Aquinas" Miller who was famously photographed jumping and waving a black protest flag in the stream of Jeff Miller's blood at KSU on May 4, 1970. To view two photos of John Hartzler watching Tom "Aquinas" Miller with black flag in blood on May 4, 1970, see: http://www.library.kent.edu/exhibits/4may95/box28/5447a.jpg http://www.library.kent.edu/exhibits/4may95/box28/5448a.jpg John Hartzler is seen in the foreground with his back to the camera. John is wearing a plaid short-sleeved shirt with headband. In one photo, John's fist is raised. Tom "Aquinas" Miller was a sensitive artist who, without hesitation, dramatically attempted to make his stunned fellow-students understand the terrible tragedy on May 4, 1970. He told me he attempted to stir the shocked students to further action. In any democracy, public trauma such as the wrongful US war in Cambodia and Vietnam (and Iraq) invites bold public action seeking to end political barbarism. At Kent State and elsewhere, improper excessive government actions resulted in avoidable tragedy. John Hartzler, Tom Miller and others from Wayne County in north-central Ohio were among our dearest friends in our Kent apartment building during 1969-70. Before and after the 1970 massacre, our group of Kent Krazies traveled to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. To view a great color photo of me and John Hartzler and Tom Miller and our gang of bad-ass, anti-war Kent State hippies in May of 1970, see: http://www.burr.kent.edu/archives/may4/twentyfive/twentyfive4.html PHOTO CAPTION: "Some members of the Kent Crazies, seen here in a mid-May, 1970, road trip to Cape Hatteras, N.C. From left: George Caldwell, Jimi Riggs, Tom Kleinhenz, Frank Zadell, Ron Warren, Alan Canfora, John Hartzler (twin brother of Jeff Hartzler) and Tom Miller." John Hartzler is the fifth among our 1970 Kent Crazies cadre to pass away. Tom "Aquinas" Miller was killed in a 1972 auto accident. Richard "Jay" Ward, also known among his fellow Vietnam veterans as "Whitey", died in an early-1970s accident in Miami. Another of our Kent comrades, Michael Weekley, died about 15 years ago of various ailments. Also, Steve Crumrine, later known as "Steve Tracy" when he starred in "Little House on the Prairie" TV show, died of AIDS in California in 1986. Long live the Kent Crazies. Long live the memory of our dear departed brothers, including John Hartzler, a gentle, intelligent man. We'll miss you, brother. *The Kent Crazies were among the prime-movers at Kent State in May of 1970. For many more details about John Hartzler, Tom "Aquinas" Miller and the Kent Crazies--courageous anti-war activists at Kent State in 1970--watch for info here regarding my soon-published memoir book. My unique memoir is THE inside story of the Kent Crazies--anti-war Kent State students and anti-war Vietnam veterans--united to stop the killing in Vietnam and Cambodia in 1970. ~ ~ ~ ~ Reagan invited 1970 Kent State bloodbath REMEMBER THE REAL RONALD REAGAN: grade B movie actor grade F politician! Supposedly, former President Ronald Reagan died yesterday on my sister Chic's June 5, 2004, birthday. Happy birthday Chic! Already, the Republican Party's own cable TV station--Fox News--exaggerates the life of one of the worst US Presidents ever. On April 7, 1970, only weeks before the slaughter of 11 American students at Kent State, Jackson State, University of Kansas and elsewhere, California Governor Ronald Reagan invited anti-student bloodshed when he said: "These students want disruption. They seek to prove that this system of ours, when faced with crisis, does not work. If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with!" Reagan's comment set the stage for national brutality on US college campuses. The brutal thug Reagan forever had the blood of Kent State students and others on his hands forever. Fox-News should devote more time to reveal the lives and deaths of the thousands of Iraqi civilians killed by the war-criminal liar named GW Bush--the political step-child of Republican fascists Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. Like GW Bush, Nixon and Reagan were Republican war criminals who killed many innocent civilians--Nixon in SE Asia and Reagan in Central America. Now Bush follows their bloody Republican example in Iraq. If only Nixon and Reagan had been properly punished as war criminals--maybe GW Bush would not be so insanely reckless today. Nixon and Reagan are gone now. But it's not too late to make a better example with GW Bush. He should be prosecuted and jailed as a lying Republican Party war criminal as soon as possible. Hopefully, future US Presidents will learn from the negative examples of criminal US Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush. ~ ~ ~ ~ Join us in Kent for the excellent 34th Annual Commemoration at Kent State University on May 3-4, 2004. The fine students of the May 4 Task Force have once again worked diligently since last September to organize these events. All events are free and open to the public. I am honored to be selected as a speaker at the 34th annual May 4 Commemoration at KSU on May 4, 2004. See you there! MAY 4, 2004: 34th ANNUAL MAY 4 KENT STATE COMMEMORATION SCHEDULE OF EVENTS/SPEAKERS/MUSIC: May 4th Commemoration: KSU Commons (if rain, KSU Ballroom, Student Center) 11:30-12 noon: Gathering Music: Sue Jeffers 12:00 Welcome/Intro: Adria 12:05-12:17 KSU Chronology: Taryn 12:18-12:24 JSU Chronology: Kris McVey/Chris Powell (intro first speaker) 12:24pm Ring Victory Bell (candles placed on/in front of stage): Chandler 4 speakers re: our 4 martyrs: 12:32 Sandy: AZD sister 12:37 Allison: Jim 12:42 Bill: Seth 12:47 Jeff: Adria 12:52 Intro Community Speaker: Mike Lee 12:54 Community Speaker: T.N. Bhargava 1pm: Keynote speaker: William Rivers Pitt, founder of http://truthout.org/ 1:30 Student Activism Scholarship winner announced 1:34 Intro Wounded Student: Tom Callahan 1:36 Alan Canfora speaks 1:46 Intro Holly Near: Sarah 1:48 Holly Near performs music/songs 2:30 Closing: THE END ~ ~ ~ ~ KSU: May 4, 2004, NEWS
Here's news coverage. Check it out. ********** WKSU radio: http://www.wksu.org/news/story/17309 **** Kent-Ravenna Record-Courier newspaper May 4 speakers urge activism 34th anniversary marked http://www.recordpub.com/article.phppathToFile=/articles//news/&file=may4commemoration.txt&article=1&tD _______________________________ Akron Beacon Journal newspaper: Anger over Iraq evident at KSU Commemoration http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/local/8592433.htm Posted on Wed, May. 05, 2004 Anger over Iraq evident at KSU commemoration Students, protesters gather on campus for anniversary of May 4, 1970, shootings By Stephen Dyer Beacon Journal staff writer KENT - Thirty-four years ago, National Guardsmen armed with World War II-era rifles marched up Blanket Hill, turned at the Taylor Hall pagoda and fired into a crowd of students -- some of whom were protesting troops on their campus and America's presence in Cambodia. Four students -- Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder -- fell in the Taylor Hall parking lot and never rose again. Tuesday afternoon, the overwhelming sense among those who gathered to remember those four was how little has changed. Palpable anger at the Iraq war and its similarity to Vietnam was the unifying theme among the few hundred who sat and watched the event. The comments at times were strident, as when Alan Canfora -- one of the wounded in the 1970 shootings -- called President George W. Bush the ``idiot stepson'' of Vietnam-era presidents and declared that former President Richard Nixon and former Ohio Gov. James Rhodes (who called out the Guard) ``are together again, burning in hell.'' That final comment drew gasps from even this clearly partisan crowd. Other statements, while strong, were less strident. ``They used Sept. 11 against you.... I can think of few greater crimes,'' said William Rivers Pitt,a critic of the Bush administration and managing editor for www.truthout.org, an online news and opinion site. Pitt is the author of the best-selling paperback War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know. Pitt wore a black leather jacket to the event and spoke strongly about the Iraq war. ``Make no mistake,'' he continued, ``it was a crime. It was a crime, and by God there's going to be a reckoning for it.'' The crowd cheered. Nestled among the 55,000 or so daffodils planted along this hill to commemorate Americans who died in Vietnam was John Barham -- a 22-year-old Kent State junior. He sat alone and watched and listened. He too was concerned about Iraq's similarity to Vietnam. ``People are drawing a lot of correlations,'' he said, explaining that Iraq was the main reason he was sitting there among the daffodils. ``It's important we remember what happened, because given the current situation, it could happen again.'' After 2 ½ hours, the remaining 150 or so participants marched from the spots in the Taylor Hall lot where the four were shot -- marked by candles in each spot. They marched through campus and downtown Kent. Last year, several arrests were made as Kent police lined their route. This year, the police presence was mostly marked by slow- moving Ford Crown Victorias and picture-taking officers. Chants of ``Hey Bush, we know you. Daddy was a killer too!'' and ``Bin Laden, Saddam and Pinochet. All created by the CIA'' rippled through the block-long procession. A few profanity-laced ``hippie'' comments belted forth from the East Main Street fraternity houses before the rally ended on Franklin Street, next to the Pufferbelly Restaurant. Back at Blanket Hill, the crowd was gone, the commemoration was at an end and all that remained was the empty parking lot with four candles flickering in the brisk, spring breeze. _______________________________ Vigil commemorates 1970 KSU shootings http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/local/8583931.htm?1c May 4 services eye Patriot Act http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/newslocal/states/ohio/counties/portage_county/8515667.htm _______________________________ Cleveland Plain Dealer: photo/caption only *pathetic censorship at the Plain Dealer! _______________________________ DAILY KENT STATER: Commemoration remembers past, discusses war http://stater.kent.edu/stories_old/04spring/5404/commemorationremembe.asp Students, community members remember May 4 during candlelight vigil http://stater.kent.edu/stories_old/04spring/5404/studentscommunitymem.asp Photo slide show http://stater.kent.edu/stories_old/04spring/5404/may4final/index.html March for peace remains peaceful http://stater.kent.edu/stories_old/04spring/5404/amarchforpeace.asp Photo slide show http://stater.kent.edu/stories_old/04spring/5404/protest/index.html Some wait for May 4 memorial completion http://stater.kent.edu/stories_old/04spring/43004/somewait.asp ++++++++++++++++ Jeffrey Miller memorial: 2004, NYC On April 26, 2004, at Jeff's high school in Plainview, Long Island, outside of New York City, there will be a solemn ceremony to dedicate a memorial plaque in Jeff's memory. Jeff's mother, Elaine, will participate, as well as Emerson College Professor J. Gregory Payne. I am honored to be chosen to participate as the keynote speaker at this very meaningful event. The schedule of events is below: **** Jeffrey Miller Memorial Ceremony – Monday April 26, 2004 Plainview-Old Bethpage High School 50 Kennedy Drive Plainview, NY 11803 Presented by SOVAH, Students Opposing Violence and Hatred Scott Cohen, President Mrs. Tracey Gonzalez, Advisor David Charles, Vice-President Mrs. Lina D’Andretta, Advisor ____ Order of Program: 10:30 – Arrival of guests for program; preparatory briefing for the day’s proceedings. 11:23 – Beginning of program; guests, community members, and students enter auditorium. 11:33 – Scott Cohen will deliver an introduction for the day’s event, as well as introduce the guest speakers. 11:40 – A video, produced by 60 minutes (CBS), regarding the Kent State Tragedy will be shown in the auditorium. 11:43 – Gregory Payne will have thirty minutes with which to apportion time for a keynote address as well as readings from the play, Kent State: A Requiem. 12:13 – Alan Canfora will have thirty minutes for a keynote address. 12:43 – Mrs. Elaine Holstein will be called to the podium, as Scott Cohen will present her with a Nassau County citation, which proclaims May 4 a ceremonious holiday. Mrs. Holstein will then be able to address the audience. 12:51 – Conclusion of the ceremony. – Interviews with the media. – Assemble outside of the school for the unveiling of the memorial. – Lunch will be provided for our guests and speakers within the administrative offices: 2:30pm / |
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